From that page which, Alex has linked:
"On
the other hand, using the service for converting document formats *is*
SaaSS, because it's something you could have done by running a suitable
program (free, one hopes) in your own computer."
Hundreds among us have burnt their hands in developing a successful 'free'
OCR tool for Indic languages without any real luck until now.
Until such a tool appears on the horizon, the Google facility is just okay
to be used.
Especially so, because we are anyway dealing with 'free' input and output
material.
-Viswaprabha
On 1 December 2015 at 21:49, Bodhisattwa Mandal <bodhisattwa.rgkmc(a)gmail.com
wrote:
> Hi Alex,
>
> Of course, building free OCR can be the only permanent solution, but WMF
> is not interested in building new OCR right now. The language engineering
> team said at the conference that, they don't have the infrastructure and
> expertise to build such software. That's why, we have to rely on Google
> OCR, knowing very well about its profit making intentions. It's just a
> temporary solution but right now, its the only best possible alternative
> for us.
>
> Regards
> Bodhisattwa
> On 1 Dec 2015 21:12, "Alex Brollo" <alex.brollo(a)gmail.com
wrote:
>
>> ... nevertheless I found very interesting this about "SaaSS":
>>
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html
>>
>> So, to build a true, excellent and indipendent "wikisource multilingual
>> OCR service" would be a better solution.
>>
>> Alex
>>
>> 2015-12-01 16:06 GMT+01:00 Bodhisattwa Mandal <
>> bodhisattwa.rgkmc(a)gmail.com>gt;:
>>
>>> Hi Nemo,
>>>
>>> Thanks for your interest. You can find the list of Google OCR supported
>>> languages in the following link -
>>>
>>>
https://support.google.com/drive/answer/176692?hl=en
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Bodhisattwa
>>> Thanks for posting about the topic. Which indic languages are we talking
>>> about exactly? Are they included in the recent FineReader versions now used
>>> by Internet Archive?
>>>
>>> Nemo
>>>
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